I’m a relative newcomer to the Nix world, but this whole flakes situation is a complete mess. Just for the record, I have no affiliation with DetSys.
From a documentation perspective, from a usability perspective, from an optics perspective. This thread takes what is ostensibly an effort to move things forward and devolves into a slinging match about everyones personal opinions on the merits of flakes rather than FlakeHub itself. Can you see how this is a bad look for the projects approachability?
I’m too new to have a strong opinion either way on flakes or FlakeHub specifically but surely if there were no problems with flakes then FH wouldn’t have been created!
As a n00b being able to track my dependencies without having to keep track of upstream releases seems like a hugely beneficial thing. And DetSys has done nothing to earn the skepticism being slung around in this thread have they (please enlighten me!)?
I guess this post is a polite way of saying you’re your own worst enemies at this point! You’re riding the crest of a hype wave as a project atm and seeing real adoption, real investment and real new users (hello, I am one). That will all evaporate if the pervading attitudes on display here don’t change imho.